CHAPTER DCVII

(THE LADY’S HEART)

“AIRA.”

Deep, provoking and a teasing tone. Nate calls Aira’s attention trying to calm her down with her worries that he thinks is unnecessary, but for a while.

“Aren’t you a bit too excited for something that isn’t there and a way far from now?”

He reminded her, a bit calming her nerves, yet is aware and more than how Aira does.

“You know that I am not talking about that, but rather the eerie darkness that suddenly looms around the Maiden.”

Aira clarifies. Guard up and worried from the pattern of events that is a bit getting out of hand and not like the one that they expect to have.

“But you also know and pretty much aware that the Maiden always had that darkness following her.”

A simple reminder that Nate speaks. Putting a nozzle to her steaming head and uncanny worries while he is perfectly hiding his own.

“Nate.”

Aira’s rebuke, impatient and irritated to his actions and seemingly uninterested thoughts to the proble